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Modern day Cassandras. Overwhelmingly women. We could see the train wreck coming. We warned. We were ignored. Rich. Poor. Small town gals. Big city gals. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @hillaryclinton.bsky.social @kamalaharris.com @jbf1755.bsky.social
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Modern day Cassandras. Overwhelmingly women. We could see the train wreck coming. We warned. We were ignored. Rich. Poor. Small town gals. Big city gals. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @hillaryclinton.bsky.social @kamalaharris.com @jbf1755.bsky.social
Nothing illustrates the inherent selfishness of anarchy as well as the school drop off line when the staff isn’t out there to police it.
December 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Nothing illustrates the inherent selfishness of anarchy as well as the school drop off line when the staff isn’t out there to police it.
This. Candy Crush, do you REALLY want to remind me how much time I spend on your app? No, you do not.
Christ every app has a fucking WRAPPED now
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This. Candy Crush, do you REALLY want to remind me how much time I spend on your app? No, you do not.
All of the designers and tech crew should sue the producers of the #proshot of #MerrilyWeRollAlong. Theatre is so much more than just the actors and the near constant close ups that never allowed us to see the staging or set or lighting absolutely lessened the experience of the show.
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
All of the designers and tech crew should sue the producers of the #proshot of #MerrilyWeRollAlong. Theatre is so much more than just the actors and the near constant close ups that never allowed us to see the staging or set or lighting absolutely lessened the experience of the show.
There a wave of senior retirements at my office and several of us looked around and then realized with dread “we’re the adults now.” 😳
the singular petrifying thought of my entire day... "I am the adult in the room"
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
There a wave of senior retirements at my office and several of us looked around and then realized with dread “we’re the adults now.” 😳
@ffxnow.bsky.social did Fairfax County extend the personal
Property tax deadline again?
Property tax deadline again?
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
@ffxnow.bsky.social did Fairfax County extend the personal
Property tax deadline again?
Property tax deadline again?
This is the only right answer.
Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is the only right answer.
I’m so sad for Toronto and Canada. 😭
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I’m so sad for Toronto and Canada. 😭
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We once sent an entire generation of our youth to hoe turnip fields. Are you sure you want to get into a 吃苦-off with us, American friends?
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We once sent an entire generation of our youth to hoe turnip fields. Are you sure you want to get into a 吃苦-off with us, American friends?
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delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍
Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune
Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”
fortune.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍
So #FairfaxCounty VA, home to tens of 1000s of #federalemployees, says they cannot grant federal employees a grace period to pay our personal property tax bills. So we have to come up with hundreds of dollars when we’re not getting a paycheck. This seems incredibly dumb. #furlough #federalshutdown
October 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
So #FairfaxCounty VA, home to tens of 1000s of #federalemployees, says they cannot grant federal employees a grace period to pay our personal property tax bills. So we have to come up with hundreds of dollars when we’re not getting a paycheck. This seems incredibly dumb. #furlough #federalshutdown
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
I am so unbelievably happy that they’re back.
The auguries tell us that when Gordon Chang stops talking trash about us is when the Party will fall. Lighting some joss sticks for comrade Chang's long life and continued health. 🙏
THREAD 🧵
The best selling books on China are often right-wing conspiracy theories. @alexludoboyd.bsky.social read them all so you don't have to.
READ HERE: chinabooksreview.com/2025/08/19/n...
The best selling books on China are often right-wing conspiracy theories. @alexludoboyd.bsky.social read them all so you don't have to.
READ HERE: chinabooksreview.com/2025/08/19/n...
September 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I am so unbelievably happy that they’re back.
Oh this just made me laugh.
at last a big budget film about Hong Xiuquan
September 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Oh this just made me laugh.
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Political party discovers that higher tax rates lead to higher tax revenues.
September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Political party discovers that higher tax rates lead to higher tax revenues.
Xi Jinping disappears from public view for several weeks every year (before Beidaihe, IIRC) and the speculation explodes that he’s dead/there’s been a coup, then it all ends in nothing. Just a random thought that has popped into my head this morning, for no reason at all.
August 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Xi Jinping disappears from public view for several weeks every year (before Beidaihe, IIRC) and the speculation explodes that he’s dead/there’s been a coup, then it all ends in nothing. Just a random thought that has popped into my head this morning, for no reason at all.
Now this is a sermon! And I am saying amen!
August 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Now this is a sermon! And I am saying amen!
I’ve never thought about it this way, but it is so true.
August 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I’ve never thought about it this way, but it is so true.
A miracle, truly. I’m buying it just on principle.
Dan has done it. No red, no dragon, no Great Wall, nary a flag on the cover of a China book.
Saturday book mail: thanks to @wwnorton.com for an advance copy of BREAKNECK: CHINA'S QUEST TO ENGINEER THE FUTURE, by Dan Wang. It immediately went into my vacation reading tote bag.
July 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
A miracle, truly. I’m buying it just on principle.
June 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Has the picture quality on #TNT for the #StanleyCup finals always been this awful, or is the TV in my hotel room just that crappy?
June 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Has the picture quality on #TNT for the #StanleyCup finals always been this awful, or is the TV in my hotel room just that crappy?
Crash Landing on You
12 Monkeys
Battlestar Galactica
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Farscape
12 Monkeys
Battlestar Galactica
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Farscape
May 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Crash Landing on You
12 Monkeys
Battlestar Galactica
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Farscape
12 Monkeys
Battlestar Galactica
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Farscape
Truth.
Your regular reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.
TAPPER: The tax cuts during the first Trump term didn't pay for themselves
BESSENT: Well, we also had something called covid
TAPPER: This is separate from that though
BESSENT: Well, we also had something called covid
TAPPER: This is separate from that though
May 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Truth.